Dan Williams // Name: Dan Williams
Location: Guildford, Surrey, UK
Born and raised in Somerset, I am a Computing student at Plymouth University currently on a year's placement at Allianz in Guildford. I enjoy football, technology, film and really want to go travelling next summer!!
As Steve Jobs said during his keynote, if you're going to create a third category of device, between the smartphone and the laptop, then it needs to be better than either for certain tasks. In many areas, this is true for the iPad -- web browsing is much better on the iPad than the iPhone, just because of the bigger screen, and physically flicking through photos, music and movies is just more enjoyable on the iPad than a laptop.
But in several crucial areas, the iPad falls short of the functionality that would have made this more than just a large iPod touch. The lack of Flash support is a major issue; the iPad's big screen is designed to make the best of multimedia content and the full-screen browsing experience, but the sight of little blue squares dotted around web pages where embedded video should have been just makes you feel like you're being short-changed.
The iPad's inability to multi-task could also severely hamper its appeal. It's being pitched as a portable device that you could kick back and use on the sofa at home, but you can't listen to your Spotify playlists at the same time as writing an email, or browse the web while using an instant-messaging app to chat with friends. It's one or other, just as it is on the iPhone and iPod touch, but for the extra money you're paying for the iPad, you expect something more akin to a laptop computing experience.
I think the inability to use multiple applications simultaneously is a massive flaw and can't believe that Apple haven't learned their lesson that people want to do different things at the same time!
I have loved Google Chrome since its release and I personally think more people should be using it considering one of the highest used browsers in Internet Explorer is a pile of garbage which should have been thrown out years a go. Unbelievably Chrome is only be used by 3% of the world's users so all users please preach and generally be as annoying as possible to get people using Chrome.
It is mentioned in the following article but I have also found that people's main resistance against Chrome's loveliness is Fantastic Mr. Firefox's huge amount of extensions which I agree are great and is a good reason rather than some I have come across…..
Well, good news everyone Chrome is soon to release official extensions for Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, etc which hopefully will turn some heads. For more information about getting access to the extensions early! Follow the link below to Mashable's article.